Kangaroos live about 6 years in the wild and more than 20 years in captivity.

The partially incinerated remains of Japanese civilians in Tokyo following a bombing raid during WWII, 10 March 1945

Actually, the two spots above the stingray's mouth are not eyes, but peculiar nostrils.

Prisoners behind barbed wire in the Sirengorengo internment camp. Sumatra, 1942–1945. After invading the Dutch East Indies, the Japanese detained approximately 42,000 soldiers and 100,000 civilians and placed them in camps.

⚡️ Clearly - the speed of electricity

Pterois or lionfish is a deep-sea dweller that is one of the most harmful marine fish to humans.

The lionfish owes its name to its fascinating fins, resembling the wings of a bird. And if the fish spreads its fins and bristles, they become similar to a lion's mane, hence the second name of this fish species.

A fashionable Edwardian era lady, 1907

Dadarao Bilhore ever since his son lost his life due to potholes

Nightjars are birds of prey.

They go hunting at night. Insects such as mosquitoes, beetles, bedbugs and butterflies are their prey.

Nightjars also like to eat flies and gadflies, which are most often found near grazing livestock. Hence the legend according to which in the evenings the nightjar sucked milk from the goats, which is how the name of the bird came about.

A chain gang of prison laborers on the march, c. 1910s-1930s

When you think it’s over…but your blood comes through.

🇬🇧 David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill, 1907

🏙 Giant skyscraper stabiliser

The Taipei 101 skyscraper is equipped with a tuned mass damper weighing 728 tonnes that stabilises it during strong winds and earthquakes. During a magnitude 6.9 earthquake, it appears that the damper is moving, but it is actually the building that is moving while the damper remains stationary.

Two women buy cocaine in capsules from a dealer, Weimar Republic, Berlin, 1929.

The streets of Karlsbad, Austro-Hungary, 1890s

Zimbabwe banknotes

Although pandas live a little longer in captivity, they almost always refuse to breed there.

Children line up to buy sweets from a cart in Chicago, March 1949 (kodachrome)